Children Mourning, Mourning Children

Based on the Hospice Foundation of America's second annual teleconference, this book explores three basic themes in children's grief. Firstly, it maintains that children are always developing; therefore their understanding of death and their reactions to illness and loss are also multifaceted and constantly undergoing change. Secondly, children grieve in ways that are both different from and similar to adults. While they may need different therapeutic approaches from their elders, each loss is different and the grief experience will be affected by many of the same factors that affect adults. Thirdly, it holds that they need significant support as they grieve.; Talking to children about loss and and illness is too important to wait until a crisis; rather, it is essential to provide opportunities to discuss loss in times that are not so Emotionally Laden. This Book Aims To Demonstrate That Open Communication between parents and children will lead to skills and understanding that are essential to the child for coping with loss and reaffirming that death is part of the process of living.

Kenneth J. Doka

The Child's Perspective of Death; Chapter 1 Children' s Understandings of Death, Charles A. Corr; Chapter 2 Grieving Children, Rabbi Earl A. Grollman; The Child's Response To Life-Threatening Illness; Chapter 3 Talking to Children about Illness, Kenneth J. Doka; Chapter 4 The Child and Life-Threatening Illness, Paul Alexander; Chapter 5 Children and HIV, Gary R. Anderson; Children Mourning, Mourning Children; Chapter 6 Grief of Children and Parents, Catherine M. Sanders; Chapter 7 Children and Traumatic Loss, Ronald K. Barrett; Chapter 8 How Can We Help, Stephen P. Hersh; Chapter 9 The Role of the School, Robert G. Stevenson; Innovative Research; Chapter 10 Worlds of Dying Children and their Well Siblings, Myra Bluebond-Langner; Chapter 11 Detachment Revisited A revised version of a paper submitted to the Journal in August 1991. Research was funded by grant MH41791 from the National Institute of Mental Health, and by grants from the National Funeral Directors Association and from the Hillenbrand Corporation. Authors are at the Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston., Phyllis R. Silverman, Steven Nickman, J. William Worden; Chapter 12 The Empty Space Phenomenon Funded by the California Division, American Cancer Society, Grant No. 2-210-PR-14, Ida M. Martinson, RN, PhD, Principal Investigator., S. G. McClowry, E. B. Davies, K. A. May, E. J. Kulenkamp, I. M. Martinson; Chapter 13 A Sampler of Literature for Young Readers, Charles A. Corr; Chapter 14 Selected and Annotated Bibliographies, Charles A. Corr;